After a woman suffers having cysts surgically removed from her right breast, things get even worse when surgical sponges are accidentally left inside of her.

A dream vacation to South America becomes a nightmare when a man's face begins to be eaten away by a parasite.

Tara keeps feeling stabbing pains in her scalp, so she investigates the Internet for answers. What she finds is almost unbelievable - botflies. She decides to cut open her scalp.

Boil-like legions lead to a diagnosis of lung cancer, just in time for Christmas. But during surgery, doctors are surprised to find a different sort of infection.

Found in contaminated food and water, Entamoeba histolytica is a parasite that feeds on living cells in the human gut.

After eating some raw sushi, a woman begins a fight for her life as a mass containing parasitic worms creates a blockage in her colon. The woman has Anisakiasis, a disease caused by Anisakis worms.

A disease begins eating a boy's face from the inside, forcing doctors to begin removing the infected flesh to save his life.

A happily married couple's trip to New York becomes a nightmare when they learn that they have been infected with the Bubonic Plague, not only putting their lives in danger but anyone who comes into contact with them.

Leishmaniasis kills skin cells in mass numbers, causing prominent skin sores. In extreme cases, it attacks the face itself, leaving the victim disfigured.

The Leishmania parsite feeds directly on the vital organs from the inside-out. It's spread through infected sand flies.

Acanthamoeba is a voracious parasite that enters the body through the skin or the nose, then devours brain cells.

While swimming with a friend a man has a seizure and collapses. Shortly after, he finds out that a pork tapeworm has been slowly eating away at his brain!

Even dead, the larvae of parasitic roundworms can cause river blindness, or Onchocerciasis. These parasites are transmitted through the saliva of blackflies.

Burrowing through the skin and internal organs, gnathostoma worms can eventually cause paralysis and death.

The pork tapeworm is a particularly vicious parasite because it can end up in the most important organ in the human body: the brain.

A fitness fanatic cannot understand why he is too fatigued to work out until he learns an infection in his colon has created a tear, causing e-coli to spread through his body.

When Rich, a journalist just back from West Africa, is feeling so ill he needs to race to the hospital, doctors soon learn it's a parasite called 'Entamoeba histolytiche,' the world's deadliest parasite after Malaria.

When an EMS' own son starts having seizures, a nightmare begins for their entire family. The eventual diagnosis is heartbreaking and doctors are not hopeful.

SNEAK PEEK: When one woman is convinced she has a worm in her eyeball - yet her doctor is not - she decides to take matters into her own hands. Literally. With a pair of tweezers. *shudder*

Medical sponges left in your body after surgery can be deadly. Each year as many as 6,000 patients have medical equipment left in their body after surgery. Up to 35% of those with sponges left in their body will die.

Well, hopefully you won't experience the kind of horrific discovery one woman made when doctors found a parasite living in her eyeball.

When a doctor discovers a worm in a woman's eyeball, they immediately perform surgery to remove it. Everyone's SHOCKED when they extract a 7- to 8-inch-long worm.

When one man hits his head and starts feeling nauseated, he heads to the clinic where doctors make a HORRIFYING discovery: HE HAS A METAL NAIL IN HIS BRAIN. Can he survive and, make a full recovery??

When one young, healthy athlete finds himself weak and in the hospital from the Aspergillus fungus, his immune system goes into overdrive to fight off the infection.

When a woman discovers a bot fly has burrowed into her leg, a doctor takes action to remove the monster immediately - instead of option B, waiting 6 weeks for the little beast to exit on its own.

When doctors discover a young woman's respiratory system is being attacked by the fungus Cryptococcus gattii, they race to save her life before her lungs fail.

SNEAK PEEK: An entire family is placed in isolation after exposure to their daughter's unidentified illness. As her lungs begin to fail, doctors frantically try to diagnose her before it's too late.

After one very ill woman experiences her breast secreting yellow pus and begins to turn black, she races to the hospital. Doctors diagnose her with gangrene caused by a spider bite.

SNEAK PEEK: When one man gets a cut in his mouth and starts spitting up brown fluids, has difficulty breathing and begins smelling like rotting flesh, his parents take him to the hospital where they discover a frightening infection.

When a doctor identifies two large foreign masses in one woman's MRI scan, he comes to the conclusion her brain has been infested with pork tapeworm - which could be fatal.

SNEAK PEEK: A young college student is experiencing migraines, nausea, strange tastes and vision loss. Her family takes her to the doctor … and are horrified when they see a scan of her brain.

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